Chapter 7 You Can't Afford This Chef
Li Jianguo is a capable person in the village. When he was young, he worked with an engineering team, so he would order bricklayers and carpenters. If he had a high craftsmanship, it was a compliment, but it was no problem to build a kang for the village to make high and low cabinets. With this craftsmanship, Li Jianguo earned a little money when he was young. Later, when he caught up with the good times, he built a furniture factory in the town to run some beds, bookcases, tables, chairs, benches, etc. Occasionally, he also helped some brands to do OEM business. His own furniture factory only did some business in surrounding townships, and relied on cheap and solid, so he didn’t have big money, but he kept making small money and lived a good life.
So the Li family got married and had a glorious marriage. Not only were the guests invited from the town and village, but even from the city. However, these people were all distinguished guests to the Li family, and they were special arrangements like a separate classroom. Zhang Wei could have enjoyed this kind of separate arrangement, but he went to work as a chef in an emergency, so this treatment was naturally gone, but what he gained was the improvement of the villagers' views on him.
Things could not be hidden in the countryside. In the morning, the villagers knew everything that happened last night. Zhang Wei originally brought a billion investment (Li Juan was afraid of causing trouble for her son, so she said so specifically), and took over the unfinished project of Dafangshan, which made him a well-known figure in the village. After last night's incident, Zhang Wei improved his prestige. So, when he arrived at the cooking place early in the morning, the aunts who helped the chef brought their own handsome and married young girls with him, hoping to make Zhang Wei look at him. Some smart people even sent their male juniors to help the chef, hoping to leave a good impression on Zhang Wei. Maybe they would be able to get along with Zhang Wei in the future and embark on a different path. Zhang Wei was speechless about this, but he had to say hello to these men and women of the same age.
The groom Li Xin went to pick him up, and Zhang Wei started to work hard, and the aunts were responsible for washing and preparing vegetables. Zhang Wei was only responsible for taking charge of the spoon and serving vegetables.
Today is no longer than last night. I only need to cook eighteen dishes yesterday. Today, the minimum amount is thirty tables. If there are many people coming, forty tables are possible. So I have to start placing the cold dishes first in the morning. When the wedding is over, I must immediately serve cold dishes on each table.
There are 30 tables at a minimum, and there are eight cold dishes on a table. These are 240 cold dishes. Generally speaking, in order to prevent insufficient food, five additional tables must be prepared, which are 280 cold dishes. Not to mention that so many dishes need to be divided, even if it only needs to be placed on a plate, it takes a lot of effort. Why don’t some chefs accept this kind of wedding banquet? It’s not that they can’t cook it. The key is that they have no similar experience and it’s too tiring to do these alone.
Zhang Wei focused on cutting and mixing various cooked foods in the back kitchen. Soon, eight cold dishes were placed separately, and plate after plate were placed on a long table. After the cold dishes were prepared, a burst of firecrackers came from outside. Zhang Wei, who heard the movement, knew that this should be the bride's arrival. Calculate the time. It was two hours in total from the time the bride entered the house to the end of the wedding. The hot dishes were ready, and the plum dishes were buckled in the cage. The remaining dishes were only fried at the beginning of the wedding. The weather was cold now, and the hot dishes were stir-fried early and would soon cool down. So Zhang Wei wiped his hand and sat aside and lit a cigarette to rest.
The young people who are helping the chef cannot understand the good intentions of their elders. Seeing that Zhang Wei was busy and didn't talk much, they made excuses to go to the front to see the bride. Zhang Wei had to chat with the aunts in a mess.
After a while, the salute sounded, and Zhang Wei knew that this meant that the wedding had officially begun. He stood up and started cooking hot dishes.
The wedding started as planned on the auspicious time on the table built in the village primary school square. Most of the guests invited were already in place to watch the ceremony. The aunts began to orderly serve the cold dishes to the prepared dining table, and everything was going on in an orderly manner.
Unfortunately, the weather was not good. Shortly after the wedding began, snowflakes began to float in the sky. When encountering this situation, there were originally some things in the wedding.
The program was forced to be cancelled because it was a bit cold. So under the host of the emcee, the couple had a relationship history. The two sides had some small interactions. After visiting their parents and relatives, they received the red envelope, the couple's friends followed suit and started to transfer the guests to several classrooms that had been prepared.
Zhang Wei was in the kitchen and didn't know what it was snowing. Not long after the wedding began, the wedding manager asked someone to run to the kitchen and told Zhang Wei that the time of the ceremony was compressed, so that Zhang Wei must ensure the speed of hot dishes.
This emergencies made Zhang Wei speed up his own speed. Fortunately, there were enough temporary stoves. Zhang Wei set up a large pot, specially used for refried items, and another pot was specially used to adjust the juice. This increased the speed a lot, but it only had certain requirements for the chef to control the heat and also tested his physical strength.
However, these two points are not a problem for Zhang Wei. His comprehensive physical concrete data reaches an average of more than 30, which is already three or four times that of a normal person, which is much stronger than some people who receive physical training all year round. This physical energy consumption is not as good as a physical fitness technique for him. As for the temperature, as long as his physical fitness and observation ability can keep up, it is not a problem for Zhang Wei to have the cooking inheritance of the elves.
After the ceremony, the bride and groom began to toast at the table, and the hot dishes were served one by one without delay.
Li Jianguo was accompanying guests in a classroom with only one table. The visitors in this classroom were all VIP guests. Among the few people were two town cadres, and the rest were some big bosses Li Jianguo met in business.
One of these bosses is named Liu Bin. Liu Bin has many industries, and the most profitable one should be the two coal mines. Among his many industries, there is a furniture factory, and the furniture produced is sold all over the country. During the peak season of furniture sales, Liu Bin often throws some small orders to Li Jianguo for OEM, which is considered to be Li Jianguo's great benefactor. Liu Bin is worth hundreds of millions of yuan and is also a famous rich man in Sanmen City. He has a good reputation, is generous and righteous. He has no style of dislike the poor and love the rich or bullying others. Otherwise, he would not have attended the wedding of the son of Li Jianguo, a small supplier.
A couple of newcomers were the first toast in the room and left after drinking. Li Jianguo called everyone to start to move their chopsticks. Liu Bin was considered a master who had eaten many delicacies and was unable to get any appetite for the dishes in the rural water steak. However, out of politeness, he picked up a chopstick and mixed three shreds of cold dishes into the bowl. Unexpectedly, after tasting them, his eyes suddenly lit up and he tried other cold dishes one after another. He didn't taste anything special about the cooked goods bought from roast chicken, but he tasted different flavors of the cold dishes he had prepared.
A table of people tasted the cold dishes, and a cadre from the town said: Hey, this cold dishes tastes good.
Well, indeed, it's no worse than the dishes imitated by Yushen. A boss made a comparison.
You can just pull it down. I think the taste is much better than the imitation of the Yushen. This roast chicken and fried fish are not good. Another boss said.
When Liu Bin saw everyone speaking, he put down his chopsticks and praised: Lao Li, the cook you hired is good at craftsmanship, where did you find it?
Li Jianguo had his own concerns. He did not want to mention Zhang Wei, so he simply said: It’s the people in our village. If you like it, eat more.
While speaking, the hot dishes also came. Li Jianguo persuaded two glasses of wine. Several people started to eat the first hot dishes, but they still received a piece of praise. The only flaw was that the meat itself had some problems, but the taste was unanimously recognized by everyone.
Zhang Wei finished the last dish in the kitchen and breathed a long sigh of relief, which was finished.
After wiping the handle, Zhang Wei just sat down and wanted to rest for a while, but the voice of the Elf Heart came from his mind.
Congratulations to Zhang Wei, your intelligence has increased by 0.0002, your strength has increased by 0.007, and your speed has increased by 0.
009, tolerance increases by 0.0008, continue to work hard.
Zhang Wei was stunned and asked: Why are you free today?
Your overall physical quality has improved a bit strangely, and I am very curious.
Weird? Where is it weird?
Haven't you noticed that the concrete value of your power's speed is zero?
Zhang Wei recalled for a moment and said in surprise: The strength has been increased by 0.007 and the speed has been increased by 0.009. Are these two zeros, but three zeros? What is the situation?
I don't know either. I was in an unconscious state just now. What did you do to increase your strength and speed so much? The Elf Heart is also very curious about this.
I had been cooking just now, but I didn't say here. Zhang Wei suddenly said: Could it be that I just fryed a big pot of vegetables and cut vegetables very quickly?
The Elf Heart said: It shouldn't be. You have cooked a lot at home these days, and the dishes are cut very quickly, but they have not improved so significantly.
Uh, it depends on time. I started cooking in the morning. The whole process took at least three or four hours, and it was only half an hour at most at home.
As far as I know, the special effect of the title of "Half-elves who love life" will not produce such a significant improvement effect due to the number of times and time. However, you can try it again. If it really has something to do with time, it means that your title has undergone special mutations.
After hearing what the Elf Heart said, Zhang Wei's heartbeat suddenly accelerated. If Elf Heart is right, then there will be a shortcut to his future improvement. This is a big deal. But looking around, the dishes that can be cooked are basically finished, and the remaining dishes are spare, and they cannot be operated. Faced with this situation, Zhang Wei wanted to go home and continue cooking. After all, there are dishes that are full of refrigerators at home, and he has to wash, cut and stir-fry them all by himself, which can better test the Elf Heart's guess.
Thinking of this, Zhang Wei couldn't sit still and got up and was about to go home. As soon as he went out, he almost met two people. He looked up and saw that one of them was his father Zhang Yonggui, and the other was the headmaster of this wedding, Li Xin's third uncle Wang Jianshe.
It was only when Zhang Yonggui came here in the morning that Zhang Wei helped the Li family handle the wedding kitchen. He was a little worried, but Li Jianguo insisted that Zhang Wei's craftsmanship was absolutely up to standard. The owner said that there was no problem. If Zhang Yonggui insisted, he would seem a little unwilling to let his son do this, so he agreed. After just tasted the food on the table, Zhang Yonggui was relieved and planned to come over to see if his son had eaten. When he met Zhang Wei and was leaving.
Before the father and son could speak, suddenly another person appeared and asked: Young man, are you the chef of this wedding banquet?
Zhang Wei looked at the person who came, but although he didn't know him, he nodded and said: Yes, is there something wrong?
The person who came was none other than Liu Bin, a distinguished guest invited by Li Jianguo. After tasting all the hot dishes, he thought it tasted very good, better than the executive chefs of some big restaurants, so he had the idea of recruiting the chef to cook for his own home, so he came here.
Liu Bin didn't know Zhang Wei and said directly: Young man, I want to invite you to be a chef at my house. I will pay you 10,000 yuan a month. How about it?
Hearing Liu Bin say this, the father and son of the Zhang family were stunned, but the general manager Wang Jianshe said: Man, don’t joke, you may not be able to afford this chef.
Chapter completed!